NSA posed as Facebook to infect computers with malware

By Salvador Rodriguez

March 12, 2014, 11:34 a.m.

The National Security Agency has reportedly used automated systems to infect user computers with malware since 2010, according to a Wednesday report. And at times the agency pretended to be Facebook to install its malware.

The NSA has been using a program codenamed TURBINE to contaminate computers and networks with malware "implants" capable of spying on users, according to The Intercept, which cited documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Between 85,000 and 100,000 of these implants have been deployed worldwide thus far, the report said.

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-nsa-posing-face...

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Permalink Reply by Not mainstreamer on March 13, 2014 at 12:57am

The source

Use a computer's microphone to record audio
Use a computer's webcam to take photos
Record a computer's Internet browsing history
Record login details and passwords use for Web services
Log users' keystrokes
Extract data from flash drives when they are plugged into infected computers
Block users from accessing certain websites
Corrupt files that computers attempt to download

Sure all this is possible by hacking. Any machine connected to the net is not safe. A safe database cannot have an internet connection, and data from the net have to be transferred by memory sticks. Even if the memory stick may be infected with malware, that malware will not work when there is no connection to the net.

(The purpose of NSA is very ambitous: To control the world by controlling communication. Next step will be drone killing machines connected to this system - so the world will be like Guatemalan terror? (Guatemalan terror - no different than Red Terror)

(Red Terror was also about hate against all Russians and Christianity - hundreds of years old - being implemented)

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Permalink Reply by Nobody Will Observe on March 13, 2014 at 2:40am

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Permalink Reply by Not mainstreamer on March 13, 2014 at 5:05am

In: "The Obamas Abusing Public Trust & Taxpayers with Unnecessary Extravagant Vacations"

Reply by 14300 on Sunday
We need to "take this out of his pay." We are his employers!

Reply by Nobody Will Observe on Sunday
It's good to be King!

What is the meaning here?

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Permalink Reply by Central Scrutinizer on March 13, 2014 at 10:38am

means good luck trying to get the usurpers paycheck reduced, America can't even impeach, indict or hang this prick over ALL the illegal shit this assclown has pulled since 08, so doubt this would happen

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Permalink Reply by Central Scrutinizer on March 13, 2014 at 10:35am

look on your USB thumb drives for a file named "autorun.inf" (must have View hidden files turned on) This is their disguised, altered NSA file for sending them your USB drive info. The average autorun command is normal and is a teeny-tiny small script to initiate the exe of the program on the disk. it's normally 1-2 kb in size, the NSA's autorun command is about a meg in size (1,000kb's). I had it, took a month to get rid of it. it tends to hide on your C drive in windows archives like Recycle bin and SVI. Use Malware Malbytes COMPLETE scan will eliminate it ;)

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Permalink Reply by Not mainstreamer on March 13, 2014 at 10:46am

What about format USB drive?

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Permalink Reply by Central Scrutinizer on March 13, 2014 at 11:34am

thats fine if you dont mind losing all your cherished & pertinent data ;)

and dont do a "Quick" format (add's 0's @ beginning & end of drive), perform a "Full"

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Permalink Reply by Deep Space on March 13, 2014 at 11:24am

Sounds pretty illegal to me...

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Permalink Reply by Central Scrutinizer on March 13, 2014 at 11:36am

this whole gawdamn country's being run illegally for years,

"At this point, what difference does it make?"

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Permalink Reply by Deep Space on March 13, 2014 at 11:38am

Just ask the slaughtered Native Americans.

The *TRUE* Americans.

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Permalink Reply by Central Scrutinizer on March 13, 2014 at 11:49am

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Permalink Reply by Deep Space on March 13, 2014 at 1:09pm

Commenting on this photo of sHilllary; it doesn't take a doctor to notice that her health is sinking down the toilet more rapidly than a constipated turd. Frankly, I don't think she has much time left... (but then again, Dick Cheney is one hard hunk of shit's that's defied the laws of what should happen, much like the US stock market) so who knows? Evil can be pretty darn resilient, at times...